Last week, officials with healthcare.gov announced plans to improve privacy across the service, including a new privacy policy, easy privacy controls for users, and a commitment to honoring the Do Not Track header.

Apple's recently-announced support for adblockers on iOS 9 provoked dramatic debate between those who were celebrating the news, and those who were angry over what they see as the company undermining the primary business model for online publishing and journalism.

Last week Monica Chew, formerly of Mozilla, and Georgios Kontaxis, of Columbia University, published a paper detailing the proposed new Firefox Tracking Protection technology. With Tracking Protection enabled they found that they received 67.5% fewer cookies and reduced page load time by an astonishing 44% while browsing the Alexa top 200 news sites. Despite these impressive results, Tracking Protection remains deeply hidden in the browser's most obscure settings system, and is not on track to be offered even to Firefox's beta users for testing and improvement. We agree with Monica: Firefox needs to enable Tracking Protection—at least for users who enable Private Browsing mode—and make it an easy option in all cases.